The Inquisition was inaugurated in Seville in 1480 as a royal and ecclesiastical institution,and its initial purpose was to discover among converted Jews ( conversos) and converted Muslims (moriscos) whether or not they actually practised their former Judaic or Islamic rituals. Before that time there had been toleration in Spain between Christians,Jews and Muslims in the period known as the “ conviviencia”, although massacres of Jews had taken place in 1391 in Toledo and in 1449 in Avila and Toledo.
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